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Chemical Communications

Pressure-cooking of explosives—the crystal structure of ε-RDX as determined by X-ray and neutron diffraction†

David I. A. Millar,a   Iain D. H. Oswald,b   Christopher Barry,c   Duncan J. Francis,c   William G. Marshall,c   Colin R. Pulham*a  and  Adam S. Cummingd  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemistry and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, The University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, UK
E-mail: c.r.pulham@ed.ac.uk
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Tel: +44 (0)131 650 4756

b Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, John Arbuthnott Building, 27 Taylor Street, Glasgow, UK

c ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK

d Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Fort Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent, UK

Abstract

The high-pressure, high-temperature ε-form of the widely used explosive RDX has been structurally characterised using a combination of diffraction techniques, and a sample of this form has been successfully recovered to ambient pressure.

Graphical abstract: Pressure-cooking of explosives—the crystal structure of ε-RDX as determined by X-ray and neutron diffraction

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CC00368A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
13 Mar 2010
Accepted
21 Jun 2010
First published
09 Jul 2010

Chem. Commun., 2010,46, 5662-5664

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Pressure-cooking of explosives—the crystal structure of ε-RDX as determined by X-ray and neutron diffraction

D. I. A. Millar, I. D. H. Oswald, C. Barry, D. J. Francis, W. G. Marshall, C. R. Pulham and A. S. Cumming, Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 5662 DOI: 10.1039/C0CC00368A

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